A work queue size of 103? Do you see like ten requests per second? That's not supposed to happen - usually it's one request every five seconds per miner. I've seen this before though - what miner version are you using? Does rebooting the server help?
And yes, I will work on the project.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm seeing. And I have the exact opposite - over time the request rate decreases. Restarting the server brings it back up.
EDIT: Now I restarted the server and the log suggests that I have queue size of 5, still I see like 10 requests per second on the screen.
Oh, and I use Multiminer. Maybe that's the culprit.
One more thing: I noticed that there is no reward function for bitcoins-lc, even though it is supported in the pools.conf. Does that mean that the script won't be able to distribute payments from bitcoins-lc to my workers?
There isn't a function for bitcoins.lc yet - they don't show per-round earnings and it will require some magic to sort the rounds out.
I guess there is now, at URL:
https://www.bitcoins.lc/transactions
And yes, I will work on the project.
That's great news!

. A big thank you from me.